Nature Quotes

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

We have on this earth that which makes life worth living.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away.

We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains.

The temple bell stops — but the sound keeps coming out of the flowers.

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

The flow of the river is ceaseless, and its water is never the same.

The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

A person may be as clever as the sky, but as long as he does not write, he will be lost in history and drowned by time.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

No man ever steps in the same river twice.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of the black liberty in Saint-Domingue; it will spring back from the roots, for they are numerous and deep.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

Don't give up, that's what life is: to continue the journey, to follow your dreams, to unknot time, to move the rubble and uncover the sky.

For Europe, for ourselves, and for humanity, comrades, we must turn over a new leaf, we must work out new concepts, and try to set afoot a new man.

A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and hope.

Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers.

The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing.

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Without accumulating little steps, one cannot reach a thousand miles; without gathering little streams, one cannot form a river or a sea.

One thing is certain, and the rest is lies; the flower that once has bloomed forever dies.

The Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was a real and active principle.

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that: it lights the whole sky.

To establish a heart for Heaven and Earth, to secure a destiny for the people, to carry on the lost teachings of the sages, to open peace for all generations to come.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star's stories.

The state is shattered, but mountains and rivers remain.

What is life like, wherever we travel? A wild goose, leaving footprints on the snow.

On the empty mountain no one is seen, but the sound of voices is heard.

I pluck chrysanthemums beneath the eastern hedge, and gaze at ease at the southern mountains.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

In this world we walk on the roof of hell, gazing at flowers.

For the raindrop, joy is in entering the river.

If there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this.

You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain.

The thief left it behind — the moon at my window.

Deeper and deeper I go, into the green mountains.

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.

Not defeated by the rain, not defeated by the wind.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

Fast as the wind, silent as a forest, fierce as fire, immovable as a mountain.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet.

I will plant my hands in the garden; I will grow green, I know, I know, I know.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

Man is by nature a social animal.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Move swift as the wind and closely-formed as the wood. Attack like the fire and be still as the mountain.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time — like to have a friend takes time.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

The Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

With every drop of water you drink, every breath you take, you're connected to the sea. No matter where on Earth you live.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

The roots below the earth claim no rewards for making the branches fruitful.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.